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SECTION: STEM 12 – CURIE

COUNTRY FAMOUS LITERATURE TYPE/ABOUT

PHILIPPINES Noli Me Tángere Novel / society of the

Philippines during Spanish
colonial period

VIETNAM The Tale of Kieu Epic Poem / the story of a

young Vietnamese girl's
attempt to right the wrongs
of her past lives by enduring
hardship in this life. She is
sold into prostitution and
continuously deceived by
men promising her love.

THAILAND Lilit Phra Lo Narrative Poem / Phra is a

prefix used for royalty and
monks; Lo is the personal
name of the hero,
sometimes transcribed as
Lor or Law. The plot is a
courtly romance that ends
with a tragic massacre and
political reconciliation.

INDONESIA Saman Novel / Utami's first novel,

and depicts the lives of four
sexually-liberated female
friends, and a former
Catholic priest, Saman, for
whom the book is named.

SINGAPORE Everything but the Brain Play / tragicomedy play that

revolves around two main
characters: Elaine Lim, a
Science physics teacher, and
her father Lim Chong Boon,
a former professor ridden
 with health problems.

MALAYSIA KL Noir Series Short Story / compilation of

short stories about Kuala
Lumpur’s dark side.

CAMBODIA The Reamker Epic Poem / based on the

Ramayana, an Indian
ancient Sanskrit epic which
follows Prince Rama’s quest
to rescue his beloved wife
Sita from the clutches of
Ravana with the help of an
army of monkeys.

MYANMAR From the Land of Green Nonfiction / memoir about

Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey a remarkable odyssey from a
Burmese hill tribe and a
land torn by civil war to
Cambridge University.

LAOS Phra Lak Phra Ram Epic / the Lao adaptation of

the Dasaratha Jataka, a
story narrating one of the
previous life of Buddha as a
Bodhisatta named Rama.

BRUNEI Sya’ir Awang Simawn Epic Poem and can also be

Narrative / a tale about a
famous hero or warrior in
Brunei

 
TIMOR-LESTE The Crossing: A Story of Nonfiction / memoir of
East Timor growing up in East Timor
portrays a people and a
culture struggling to form
their own identity under
successive waves of
colonialism.